Solar Airplane - Sunseeker II

The solar powered aircraft, the Sunseeker II will fly over Europe following its featured presentation at the e-flight expo(April 2-5)). The tour will be the largest journey for the Sunseeker since 1990, when its predecessor, Sunseeker I, crossed the United States in 21 flights, with 121 hours in the air. The new Sunseeker II has improved for better performance, including wing modifications, an increase in surface area for solar cells, more powerful motor and new lithium polymer batteries. The tour will cover 8 countries: Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Italy, France and Spain. Designed by aircraft mastermind Eric Raymond. More after the break...

Nokia E75

It was announced earlier this year, words said that Nokia is going to release the E75 business phone this month. The E75 is a first device to ship with the new email user interface, offering full desktop email functionality, and complete integration of Nokia’s email and messaging services. It has both QWERTY and numeric keypad and also the first Eseries that support Nokia’s game service N-Gage. Check out the full specifications after the break.

Nokia E75 Specifications

• System: WCDMA 850/1900/2100

• WCDMA 900/1900/2100

• GSM/EGSM 850/900/1800/1900

• User Interface: S60 platform

• Dimensions: 111.8 mm x 50 mm x 14.4 mm

• Weight: 139 g

• Standby time: Up to 11 days (GSM), 11 days (WCDMA)

• Talk time: Up to 5.4hours (GSM), 4.2 hours (WCDMA)

• Main display: 2.4” QVGA (320×240), up to 16 million colors

• Battery: BL-4U, 1000 mAh, Li-Po

• Memory: Up to 50 MB internal memory, 4 GB card on board, support for up to 16 GB microSD memory card

• Camera 3.2 megapixels (2048 x 1536 pixels)

• Video capture: Video recording in VGA quality

• HSDPA class 6 up to 3.6Mbits

• 384 kbps uplink

• WLAN (IEEE 802.11b/g)

• EGPRS multislot class 32, max download 296 kbps; upload 177.6 kbps

• High-Speed micro USB 2.0 which supports charging

• Bluetooth wireless technology 2.0 with A2DP stereo audio, enhanced data rates (EDR)

• 3.5 mm AV connector

The World’s Most Extreme Golf Hole

Anna Kournikova at the Sony Ericsson Open

Katrina Kaif walked the ramp as a Barbie

The glamorous Fall/Winter 2009 Lakme Fashion Week began on March 27, at the Ballroom of the Grand Hyatt Hotel, Mumbai. Katrina Kaif walked the ramp dressed as Barbie. A Barbie doll in her likeness would be created soon..THERE COULD not have been a better opening of the Fall/Winter 2009 Lakme Fashion Week than the spectacular “Barbie All Doll’d Up” show that rocked the ramp. It was a perfect combination of style and glamour as 50 years of Barbie was celebrated along with Lakme Fashion Week, the pioneers of the fashion weeks in India having completed a decade.
Dress the Barbie contest attracted 75 entries from top designers in the country from which the 20 short listed creations were showcased on the ramp at the dazzling show.
It was the winning dress by Nishka Lulla that Bollywood’s glamorous star Katrina Kaif modeled as the show stopper of the day. Katrina Kaif will be the Indian celebrity on whose likeness a Barbie doll will be created by Mattel Toys India Pvt Ltd.
The Ballroom of the Grand Hyatt Hotel, Mumbai with the extra long ramp was dressed in hundreds of metres of the characteristic Barbie pink silk with the famed Barbie logo all around. The venue almost resembled Barbie’s pretty house and it was a place where a girl of any age would have loved to be.
Pretty, frothy party dresses and gowns that were a delightful blend of the East and West turned into great fusion wear as they floated down the ramp. Top ramp models were dressed in brilliant creations that could have made Barbie’s wardrobe the most envied in the world.
Starting with the Barbie song for the “Plastic and Fantastic Barbie” the accompanying audio visual gave a flash back of Barbie through the five decades and Barbie dolls around the world.

Mercedes Benz F-CELL Roadster

Mercedes-Benz has unveiled the F-CELL Roadster project. The F-CELL Roadster is controlled with drive-by-wire technology, and a joystick takes the place of a conventional steering wheel. The vehicle is powered by a 1.2 kW emission-free fuel cell system located at the rear. It could reach a top speed of 25 km/h and achieve an operating range of up to 350 km(217 mile)."The F-CELL Roadster uniquely combines state-of-the-art technologies with the history of vehicle construction. As an allusion to the Benz Patent Motor Car from 1886, the vehicle is fitted with large spoked wheels.Moreover, the F-CELL Roadster incorporates stylistic elements from diverse eras of automotive history, such as the carbon-fiber bucket seats with hand-stitched leather covers and the distinctively styled fiberglass front section, based on the component from the Formula One racing bolides."

yea, yea

i know, i said i would show y'all this week but it's taking a lot longer then anticipated to get my kitchen back in order.  painting is done and my kitchen is no long bright green, and i think, i kind of like her :)  hope your week is going peachy!